Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies..."
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"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies..."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know. To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"... I've never really had a party before."Why did you have one now" I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?"
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"That’s when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of burning heat splitting me in two, something searing and scorching and tearing, and if screaming were a feeling it would be this. Then nothing."
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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